Visiting a non-existent userpage on the English Wikipedia (for example: [[User:Mathewrbowker]] - which is a similar username to mine but doesn't exist) and clicking the second bullet ("Search for "User:Mathewrbowker" in existing pages of namespace User.") does not display search results but instead redirects users back to the same page. Search results should be displayed when that link is clicked.
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does not display search results but instead redirects users back to the
same page. Search results should be displayed when that link is clicked.
Note: It also says "User account "Mathewrbowker" is not registered." so in my opinion, the search results *are* displayed.
What would you have expected instead?
Woops, sorry. Thanks for the poke.
The problem is not on that specific page. The problem is the second link, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/User:Mathewrbowker, which redirects back to the user page.
The expected result is for a search results page to appear. It doesn't, unless I force it by manipulating the URL.
So, either that link should disappear, or search functionality for the User: namespace should be fixed.
For a further note, any page the User: namespace that is visited via "Special:Search" is redirected back to a non-existent userpage. There are no longer the ability to search for users at all.